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LATEST GRAND NATIONAL ODDS: 9/2 Cloudy Lane; 10/1 Comply Or Die; Slim Pickings; 11/1 Simon; 14/1 Beweleys Boy; Chelsea Harbour; 16/1 Butlers Cabin; 18/1 Mr Pointment; 20/1 McKelvey; Snowy Morning; Hedgehunter; King Johns Castle;Point Barrow. Others on request.
Ten Aintree tips from Bet fair
Cloudy Lane - current odds 7.0
Comply Or Die - 13.0
Slim Pickings - 15.0
Simon - 16.0
Chelsea Harbour - 18.0
Bewleys Berry - 18.0
Butler’s Cabin - 21.0
Mr Pointment - 24.0
Snowy Morning - 26.0
King Johns Castle - 29.0
McKelvey - 32.0
Point Barrow - 28.0
Celeb Tips
Clare Balding (BBC TV lead presenter)
1 Bewleys Berry 2 Hedgehunter 3 Simon 4 D’Argent
I’m going with Bewleys Berry. He ran well last year but he just didn’t quite get round. I know that’s a typical excuse but Hedgehunter managed to win after falling the year before, so I think Bewleys Berry has a good chance. He should jump round - it looks like Aintree brings out the best in him and he seems to enjoy the course.
Jim McGrath (BBC TV lead commentator)
1 Philson Run 2 Cloudy Lane 3 Slim Pickings 4 Mr Pointment
He’s just managed to creep into the field at the last moment, and Philson Run is a very lightly raced 12-year-old who finished fourth last year at 100-1. He’s a very good each-way chance this year. He was brought down when going well at Haydock and prior to that ran a very good second. Cloudy Lane has won everything we’ve seen him in so far and is in 20lbs below his true handicap mark. Connections are very confident he’ll be able to jump these fences.
This is it the big one, and by far the biggest betting race of the whole year. So what’s going to win? Well as we should all know by now it can often turn out to be a lottery, especially over these tricky fences, but despite the 40 runners we can normally rule out a whole host of the field that are simply just not good enough.
Most of the attention will surround the market leader Cloudy Lane after winning his last three races in the style of horse on the real upgrade and if the handicapper could reassess his chances then he’d have a load more weight to lump round. He’s around 11/2 at the time of writing but he’s expected to shorten even more and even go off the shortest priced Grand National favourite since Red Rum in 1975. Anyway, because he’s got so much in hand if he stays out of trouble and takes to these fences it’s hard to see him not being in the shake-up.
Hedgehunter is another that with a welter-weight burden of 11-12 and will need to put in a career-best effort to win, but that’s not to say he can’t fill a place again. He might be 12 years-old but he’s show he loves it here and course form at Aintree is a huge positive in any race! One further down the betting, that I also fancy to go well, is Alan King’s D’Argent. His grey is now 11 years-old and seems to love these extreme distances and with the stable still in such great form this would really cap their season off.
The one horse, however, that will be carrying the most weight of my money is Jonjo’s Butler’s Cabin. Jonjo is still yet to win the race as a trainer, but has gone close with the likes of Clan Royal in recent years and with this being the one main race that has eluded champion jockey Tony McCoy then this could be the National story that always seems to come out of this fantastic race. McCoy had the pick of all the JP McManus owned runners and although some think he’s made a blunder not siding with King Johns Castle I think he’s spot on with question marks on stamina against that one. The stable have had this race in mind for him for ages and after winning the 4mile event at the Cheltenham Festival in 2007, and he’s shown that despite being a French-bred (not know for their stayers) then he clearly relishes these extreme distances. Add in the fact he’s still only 8 years-old then he’s still got plenty to give and in the strong hands of Mr McCoy this could finally be the year that the champ breaks his duck.
